However, Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga weren’t the first actors to portray the Warrens, as we’ve recently discovered the 1991 TV movie The Haunted that serves as something of a lost Conjuring movie.
Ever since 2013’s The Conjuring, the paranormal exploits of real-life husband/wife demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren have provided the foundation for a franchise that has spawned sequels and spin-offs including the forthcoming The Nun, The Crooked Man and, of course, The Conjuring 3.
Click here to purchase Ed and Lorraine Warren’s book The Haunted: One Family’s Nightmare!
Besides serving as a bizarro universe version of The Conjuring, director David Mandel (F/X, School Ties, the original X-Files pilot) keeps the pace of The Haunted steady and the scares subtle.